Summary

In this second and revised edition of The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear account of the American chronicle that strikes a balance between the new diversity in scholarship and the narrative unity that any general history must have. Brinkley makes plain that one can incorporate the rich and varied experiences of America's many cultures into a coherent and compelling account and at the same time retain a sense of what ties Americans together as members of an often troubled but remarkably successful nation. The revised edition pays particular attention to fresh scholarship on the American West, on Hispanic Americans, and on Asian Americans. There is a new section on the rise of the contemporary political right, and an enlargement of coverage of the Vietnam War.

Author Bio

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teacher7;s Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999-forthcoming).His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series 0;The American Experience1;, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Chapter 5: The American Revolution Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Chapter 10: America7;s Economic Revolution Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Chapter 14: The Civil War Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Chapter 18: The Age of the City Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform Chapter 23: America and the Great War Chapter 24: The New Era Chapter 25: The Great Depression Chapter 26: The New Deal Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Chapter 28: America in a World at War Chapter 29: The Cold War Chapter 30: The Affluent Society Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority Chapter 33: From the 0;Age of Limits1; to the Age of Reagan Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization

In this second and revised edition of The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear account of the American chronicle that strikes a balance between the new diversity in scholarship and the narrative unity that any general history must have. Brinkley makes plain that one can incorporate the rich and varied experiences of America's many cultures into a coherent and compelling account and at the same time retain a sense of what ties Americans together as members of an often troubled but remarkably successful nation. The revised edition pays particular attention to fresh scholarship on the American West, on Hispanic Americans, and on Asian Americans. There is a new section on the rise of the contemporary political right, and an enlargement of coverage of the Vietnam War.

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teacher7;s Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999-forthcoming).His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series 0;The American Experience1;, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Chapter 5: The American Revolution Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Chapter 10: America7;s Economic Revolution Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Chapter 14: The Civil War Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Chapter 18: The Age of the City Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform Chapter 23: America and the Great War Chapter 24: The New Era Chapter 25: The Great Depression Chapter 26: The New Deal Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Chapter 28: America in a World at War Chapter 29: The Cold War Chapter 30: The Affluent Society Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority Chapter 33: From the 0;Age of Limits1; to the Age of Reagan Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization

Summary

In this second and revised edition of The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear account of the American chronicle that strikes a balance between the new diversity in scholarship and the narrative unity that any general history must have. Brinkley makes plain that one can incorporate the rich and varied experiences of America's many cultures into a coherent and compelling account and at the same time retain a sense of what ties Americans together as members of an often troubled but remarkably successful nation. The revised edition pays particular attention to fresh scholarship on the American West, on Hispanic Americans, and on Asian Americans. There is a new section on the rise of the contemporary political right, and an enlargement of coverage of the Vietnam War.

Author Bio

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teacher7;s Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999-forthcoming).His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series 0;The American Experience1;, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Chapter 5: The American Revolution Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Chapter 10: America7;s Economic Revolution Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Chapter 14: The Civil War Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Chapter 18: The Age of the City Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform Chapter 23: America and the Great War Chapter 24: The New Era Chapter 25: The Great Depression Chapter 26: The New Deal Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Chapter 28: America in a World at War Chapter 29: The Cold War Chapter 30: The Affluent Society Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority Chapter 33: From the 0;Age of Limits1; to the Age of Reagan Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization